[Sosfbay-discuss] Impeachment BOYCOTT IMPACT

[JamBoi]

--- Lew Brown <boycottacrossamerica at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your patience, the final report on our
> boycott will be out
> soon...new data is arriving and I have to find the
> time to pull it all
> together.  I am posting for your amusement one early
> report on retail sales
> during April-we have flexed our muscles people and
> have demonstrated the
> ability to cost corporate interests BILLIONS of
> dollars in sales.  With this
> in mind I am busy preparing recommendations for
> broadening our base of
> support and using economic force as an alternative
> to other forms of force
> in gaining the desired goals of peace and
> impeachment.  We are more powerful
> than we know-the dollar amounts reflected in this
> report are, respectively a
> $1.517 Billion dollar downturn overall during April
> and a $740 Million
> dollar "slump" during our boycott week.
> 
> Lew
> 
> Redbook: US Retail Sales Down 4.1% First 3 Wks Apr
> Vs March
> 
> Tue, May 1 2007, 12:55 GMT
> http://www.djnewswires.com/eu
> Redbook: US Retail Sales Down 4.1% First 3 Wks Apr
> Vs March
> 
> NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--U.S. chain store sales fell
> 4.1% in the first three
> weeks of April compared with the previous month,
> according to Redbook
> Research's latest indicator of national retail sales
> released Tuesday.
> 
> The fall of the index was deeper than the targeted
> 3.7% decrease, according
> to the report.
> 
> The Johnson Redbook Index also showed seasonally
> adjusted sales in the
> three-week period rose 0.1%, compared with the
> targeted 0.5% increase.
> 
> Redbook said on an unadjusted basis, sales in the
> week ended April 28 were
> up 0.2% compared with a 0.2% decline the previous
> week.
> 


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